{"id":2572,"date":"2021-05-27T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/5k-or-marathon-which-is-harder\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:22:20","slug":"5k-or-marathon-which-is-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/5k-or-marathon-which-is-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"5K or Marathon: Which is Harder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\">Which is harder, to run 3.1 miles or 26.2?&#0160; They are equally hard for the runner who runs right.&#0160; The agony and the ecstasy at the end of a race run right is the same whether induced by 42.2 km of LSD or 5 km of POT.&#0160; Below, I am approaching the final stretch of a 5 K trail race (2nd annual CAAFA 5K Race Against Violence, Prospector Park, Apache Junction, Arizona). &#0160;The date is wrong: should be 3\/21\/2010.&#0160; I finished in 45th place in a mixed field of 113, and 28th among 44 men.&#0160; Time: 33:38.8 for a pace of 10:49.8.&#0160; That&#39;s nothing to crow about, but then I was 60 years old as was the gal right behind me.&#0160; At age 40 I could cover this distance at a 7:45 min\/mile pace.&#0160; There were five 60+ males and I finished first among them.&#0160; Not a strong field!&#0160; But a beautiful cool crisp morning and a great course and a great run.&#0160; I could have pushed harder!&#0160; Could have and should have!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\">LSD: long slow distance.&#0160; POT: plenty of tempo.&#0160; Both terms borrowed from Joe Henderson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\">Life is for living, and the strenuous life is best by test!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0278802c70c8200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BV 5K March 2010\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0278802c70c8200d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0278802c70c8200d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"BV 5K March 2010\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is harder, to run 3.1 miles or 26.2?&#0160; They are equally hard for the runner who runs right.&#0160; The agony and the ecstasy at the end of a race run right is the same whether induced by 42.2 km of LSD or 5 km of POT.&#0160; Below, I am approaching the final stretch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/5k-or-marathon-which-is-harder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5K or Marathon: Which is Harder?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}